Not use Select2 for Taxonomy Field?

• gregpymm

• March 16, 2015 at 11:20 am

Is is possible to *not* use Select2 for the Taxonomy field in ACF 5 Pro?

I would prefer to use a regular select element is many circumstances.

Is there an easy way to deactivate the Select2 functionality?

Sorry if this is documented somewhere else. I could not find it.

Thanks.

• lupetalo

• August 4, 2015 at 6:28 am

I second this. It is not always god option to have. On frontend forms for example

• lupetalo

• August 4, 2015 at 6:29 am

You could just add setting that we can filter, like on regular select element.

• John Huebner

• August 5, 2015 at 9:19 am

As far as I know, no, there isn’t any way to deactivate select2 on the fields where it is used. If you want to use regular select field you would need to build a filter to dynamically populate the select field http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf_load_field/, there is an example of using this here http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/dynamically-populate-a-select-fields-choices/

Then you’d need to create an acf/save_post action http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acfsave_post/ to get the value of your select field and update the terms for the post yourself https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_set_post_terms